Are doing here and why we are doing it, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that historical current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program its not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context helping inform policymakers as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. I also want to thank regional weekly in the back of the room, which is the assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . Good morning. Thank you for coming. I have been Teaching I
So i welcome you this morning, thank you all for coming, my name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center. Which is sponsoring this briefing. It is on the geo politics of middle east oil, Historical Perspectives on the current crisis. I want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. Which has booked t
Today the Circuit Breakers were down 7 . A day where oil had its first decline, down 31 . The treasury went below. 15 a record low which tells you the bond market is terrified its also a day where you probably lost a lot of money its probably what happened to you. Thats because, of course, the dow plummeted 2014 points. Its worst point drop ever. The s p plunged 6. 7. Nasdaq 2. 159 now the dow was at 2. 14. It lost that much. Okay it happened. What the heck got us here . Where do we go next . First todays sellers fear we are going into a coronavirus induced recession and theyre trying to get out of other people who want to sell. Just trying to get aahead of them that may sound fanciful that we had six cases in this country and 22 deaths. In the end, it seems like a super food than the playing. As the president tweeted earlier, 37,000 americans died from the flu last year yet nothing is shut down life and the economy go on, end quote. But the marks were not reassured, not the bond marke
Been a long time since i did good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla futures were up and we were up 950 points almost on the dow but were going to start with the market selloff from the highs at least dow is up 243, caterpillar and bogey. Bob pisani is here at post nine to talk about what these internals look like this morning. It all feels tentative, the whole thing. I said this morning, theyre putting an awful lot of faith on fiscal stimulus, not monetary stimulus the traders want to hear fiscal stimulus at this point so theres two camps one is the cam whop said we are so ridiculously oversold there has to be a bounce and they have a point on historical basis. We have extreme oversold conditions we have the largest single day drop on the index since october 2008 90 downside volume. At one point 99 of the s p was down the vix over 50. I dont think people understand what the vix over 50 means its a real number over 50 the market believes theres a 50 chance th
Lighten up in a bid to get people back to work. The concern here and why these indices are in the red is what if that brings about a surge in the case count. Lets look at what is happening in the broader asian markets outside of china. You can see the asiapacific index excluding japan. Japan is on hold today. Also in the red. S p, futures looking ahead. Under pressure on worries about what suppliers will be doing to supply chains. A lot of them are in south korea and that is now the focal point for the coronavirus outside of china. I want to bring to your attention at the top of the screen, the malaysia stock index. Some political turmoil, news coming out of the Prime Ministers office. Really weighing on malaysian equities, down to the lowest point since 2015. I want to bring your attention to the currency markets. Also want to point attention to the aussie dollar versus the yen. That is not just the currency to watch in asia, but the broader risk barometer. The aussie dollar can be a